Maine Turnpike Authority's ten year plan forecasts much slower growth in traffic, and as a result a widening project through the western edge of the Portland area is being deferred at least five years. Traffic on the Maine Turnpike grew steadily from around 100k/day in 1990 to an average 170k/day in 2004 and remained at about that level through 2007.

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What were the extra lanes for? Moose n Deer???

on any saturday in the summer, traffic backs up from the massachusetts line where 495 dumps in to 95 all the way up to portland.

a little more than 50 miles.

sometimes it backs up both ways.

going southbound, you're better off getting off at wells and taking route 9 to spaulding turnpike and then into nh.

used to a lot worser <new word, when it was only 2 lanes each way from kittery to portland.

coming out of PME on 8 with mty's via'ing into BOS or PVD really sucked on a saturday in the summer.